The owner of Superior Grill has acquired the office building and parking lot directly across the street from the new Superior Grill location and plans to use the 70-space parking lot for valet and employee parking during the restaurant’s busy dinner hours.
In a deal that closed earlier today, Superior Grill owner Robert Kirchoff’s RLK Holdings, LLC acquired the 2.5-acre Highland Road property from Legacy Oaks, LLC for $1.4 million. Legacy Oaks is owned by Robert and Jeanette Rackley.
The 15,000-square-foot office building that sits on the property is home to several tenants, most notably, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. All tenants will remain in the building under its new owner, according to Mark Hebert, of Kurz and Hebert Commercial Real Estate, who brokered the transaction.
The parking lot adjacent to the building will continue to serve the building’s tenants during the day, Hebert says. After the building’s tenants close for the night, however, Superior Grill will use the lot for employee parking and valet parking for customers.
“At night, no one is in the office building so it’s a perfect use of the parking lot,” Hebert says. “Besides, it will take a little pressure off the shopping center parking lot.”
Superior Grill is located on an out parcel in the Kenilworth Shopping Center and shares a parking lot with Robert’s Fresh Market, Max Fitness and several smaller tenants.
Hebert says Kirchoff hopes to work with the city to eventually install a pedestrian crossing with a signal light between the restaurant and the new parking lot.
Superior Grill opened its second Baton Rouge location on Highland Road in October In the two months since, business has been brisk, Hebert says. Kirchoff did not return calls seeking comment.
—Stephanie Riegel
